>>>>>>>I'm using 256-color Win 95. In VFP color palette I have some nice tint colors such as cream, light cyan, etc. These colors can be added to objects fine at design, but they do not show up at run-time, I just get background window color. Any ideas on this?
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>>>>More investigation...
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>>>>This is evidently a VFP 3 bug, I found a KB doc on it. "Dithered" colors do not show up in backgrounds at run-time for many objects. The colors I'm trying to use must be "dithered," I guess. I have VFP 5 coming any day, perhaps this will fix the problem.
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>>>please let me be the first to congratulate you on your fine picture...
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>>Why thankyou! I mean, uh-oh...that's what you get with a 300 dpi scanner and an ID-badge photo...
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>Bruce,
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>Until you get version 5, and if you want your forms to be the same color as those displayed in your standard win95 message boxes, pageframes etc., try this;
>=EVALUATE("RGB(" + SUBSTR(RGBSCHEME(15,1), AT(",", RGBSCHEME(15,1), 3) + 1)) in the BackColor property of your forms.
>I believe this is courtesy of the late Tom Retig and associates, but don't quote me.
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>Jon

Thanks, this might actually be useful sometime, but my problem is with 'tint' colors that I can't get Win 95 to use as backgrounds except for a few odd things like tooltips. VFP has these colors in design but not run time for some backgrounds. A good example is the 'cream' or light yellow color -- it's a perfect background color...